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Members of the Achille Serre Ltd's Private Fire Brigade, London 1920s. These are some cool ladies. Although I generally prefer to be rescued by a dashing fireman who looks like (or is) Henry Cavill, I'd make an exception for these dashing dames.

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Stop what you're doing, click play, close your eyes, imagine you're laying on your daybed listening to the wireless, it's 1932. Relax, empty your mind, forget your troubles, listen to the lyrics. youtu.be/iBGDg9w5AtI?...

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Spring (Apple Blossoms) [1859] by John Everett Millais (English artist, lived 1829–1896). A fleeting moment of youth and renewal - with hints of the passage of time. Today is the first day of #spring! 🙂

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Jenni Fagan’s memoir ‘Ootlin’ is about dislocation, ceaselessly moving through all kinds of placements in the broken UK care system. We spoke to Jenni about her book, inspirations and current reads – read here: www.womensprize.com/in-conversation-with-jenni-fagan/

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Celebrating Spring, rapidly returning. 🖼️ ‘Spring’, also titled ‘Gardening’, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1864. Design for a small panel in the John Pollard Seddon’s “King René’s Honeymoon Cabinet”. 🖼️ ‘A Herald of Spring’, Walter Crane, 1872. 🖼️ ‘A Song of Spring’, Frederick James Shields

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Annick van Hardeveld was an 21 years old nurse who during the war joined the Dutch resistance as a courier. On the night of May 4/5th 1945 she was already celebrating the end of the war, the allies were coming, the war was as good as over. But then she was given one more mission.

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The Otis Redding version of this song is brilliant, a classic, but not a lot of people know that it's a cover. Here's the original from 1932! youtu.be/iXF-HRP1KBI?...

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Trump doesn’t give a shit about peace just plundering the natural resources of bombed, raped and pillaged lands. He’s a common thief stealing from corpses in the wreckage whilst siding with the perpetrator and there’s not enough words in the English language to describe how much I hate the bastard.

submitted 40 days ago • 70 comments

The new issue of Breathe magazine has my seven-page feature on art and craft travel in Estonia - printmaking and street art in Tartu, sustainable fashion and design in Tallinn, etc. @visittallinn.bsky.social @mfaestonia.bsky.social #Estonia #TravelWriters

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I hate Elonois Nazis

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"Show these fascists what a couple of hillbillies can do!" Woody Guthrie, All You Fascists Bound To Lose, 1940s. youtu.be/VwcKwGS7OSQ?...

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Each to their own

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I once went for a walk with a sailor and all the old ladies started flirting with him and one asked if he could dance the hornpipe. So he did and al the old ladies fell in love with him. It's a dangerous dance! A Sailor's Hornpipe (Sweden 1915) youtu.be/Jt9KAuu4KsU?...

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Unsolicited writing advice, #17171617: Don't just write. Read books. Watch films. Look at paintings and sculpture. Play games. Go to plays. Listen to music. Think about how these things make you feel. Making art is a two-way stream. To make art, you have to consume art.

submitted 77 days ago • 191 comments

I need say no more...

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I'll be on Loose Ends tonight on Radio 4 at 6:15 - talking about urban fairies, growing up in Barnsley, and what Chocolat means to me. Please tune in if you can!

submitted 79 days ago • 9 comments

I don't understand the political timidity when it comes to regulating social media. These are companies that have decimated the free press, fuelled race riots on our streets, undermined the mental health of our children, paid little tax and are now undermining liberal democracy itself.

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I love this one. Many years ago as a young man I spent a night drunk in a police cell with my pet dog Cyndi so I know how it feels

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In 2025 we could all start by agreeing... That billionaires Left or right Foreign or domestic Unhinged or not Should not be allowed to dictate and dominate our UK politics and media.

submitted 83 days ago • 50 comments

I have a piece in the Guardian today about Barnsley library, and how it became my childhood home. Pick up a copy if you feel like reading it!

submitted 90 days ago • 9 comments

A Quiet Moment (1899) by Carlton Alfred Smith (English artist, lived 1853–1946). 🎄 Between Christmas and New Year, a perfect time for reading.

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King Charles who loves killing foxes, birds, and badgers has been made Patron of the RSPCA. King Charles used his power to block a ban on Fox Hunting and to make sure it is the joke ban we currently have. RT if the RSPCA should remove him.

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Women crowned by light today in honour of it being St. Lucia’s Day (St Lucy). A festival of lights celebrated in Sweden and Norway on 13th December in honour of her - young women and girls adorn themselves with wreaths and crowns of lights and candles. #preraphaelite

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“How will an ambulance get through?” A question only asked of those trying to save our planet, not millionaire landowners trying to hoard wealth. Farmers received record support in the budget. Pay what is still less than your fair share, take your tractors and piss off.

submitted 109 days ago • 189 comments

“Women of a certain age” are who misogynists fear the most, that’s why they claim women over 30 have “hit the wall” and all try to bang twenty year old women who are less empowered to call out bad behaviour and too inexperienced to know that they’re a pitiful shag. I see you, Gregg.

submitted 120 days ago • 193 comments

I have read, reread & read again...💔 Such an affecting poem. Thank you @brianbilston.bsky.social 🙏

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Clarkson and Farage in expensive tweed that’s likely never even seen a bush, protest for the privileged. Obviously. Nobody cares about taxing private schools or inheritance. Cry into a £50 note as I sit and feel good about how my Labour vote now means that NHS workers will be paid properly.